### Installation on Windows To use telegram-cli in Windows, you should compile with Cygwin which has POSIX API functionality. First, Clone GitHub Repository git clone --recursive https://github.com/vysheng/tg.git Install [Cygwin](https://www.cygwin.com/) and cygwin's package manager, [apt-cyg](https://github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg). On Cygwin Terminal, install compiler and tools : apt-cyg install cygwin32-gcc-core cygwin32-gcc-g++ gcc-core gcc-g++ make wget patch diffutils grep tar gzip Now you have a compiler, but no libraries. You need readline, openssl, libconfig, liblua, python and libjansson to use telegram-cli's full functionality. On Cygwin Terminal, type: apt-cyg install libevent-devel openssl-devel libreadline-devel lua-devel python3 (Install package 'python' to use Python 2.7, or install package 'python3' to use Python 3) libconfig and libjansson is not in cygwin's package, so you should compile yourself. Compile libconfig : wget http://www.hyperrealm.com/libconfig/libconfig-1.5.tar.gz tar xvf libconfig-1.5.tar.gz && cd libconfig-1.5 ./configure make && make install && cd .. Compile libjansson : wget http://www.digip.org/jansson/releases/jansson-2.7.tar.gz tar xvf jansson-2.7.tar.gz && cd jansson-2.7 ./configure make && make install && cd .. Then, in telegram-cli's directory, ./configure We need to patch Makefile and loop.c to compile in cygwin. Download this [diff](https://gist.github.com/ied206/d774a445f36004d263ab) then untar. Then, patch in 'tg' directory. cd tg patch -p1 < telegram-cli-cygwin.diff Then make There will be some warnings, but you can ignore them. After compile is done, **telegram-cli.exe** will be generated in **bin** directory. To run telegram-cli, type bin/telegram-cli -k tg-server.pub **Caution**: Binary compiled with Cygwin should be run in Cygwin Terminal, since it assumes unix-like shell, and it is dependent on cygwin dlls.